Between Feminism and Psychoanalysis is based on a series of fifteen seminars given at Cambridge University in King’s College and the Social and Political Sciences Faculty from January to July 1987. The series was organized in an attempt to explore the often intense debates that have arisen around psychoanalysis, especially of the Lacanian type, and feminism.
The Birth of Feminism - Woman as Intellect in Renaissance Italy and England
An experiment in collective biography and intellectual history, The Birth of Feminism focuses on nineteen learned women from the middle ranks of society who rose to prominence in the world of Italian and English letters between 1400 and 1680. Drawing both on archival material—wills, letters, and manuscript compositions, some presented here for the first time—and on printed writings, Ross gives us an unprecedented sense of educated early modern women’s lives.
Feminism In Literature: A Critical Companion, Volume 2: 19th Century, Topics & Authors (A-B)
Feminism, sometimes put in the plural feminisms, is a loose confederation of social, political, spiritual, and intellectual movements that places women and gender at the center of inquiry with the goal of social justice. What has literary studies taught us about feminism? That being gendered is a text that can be read, interpreted, manipulated, and altered...
Enlightenment Contested: Philosophy, Modernity, and the Emancipation of Man 1670-1752
The first major reassessment of the Western Enlightenment for a generation. Continuing the story he began in Radical Enlightenment, Jonathan Israel now focuses on the first half of the eighteenth century. He traces to their roots the core principles of Western modernity: the primacy of reason, democracy, racial equality, feminism, religious toleration, sexual emancipation, and freedom of expression.
Feminism in Literature: A Critical Companion, Volume 6: 20th Century, Authors (H-Z)
Feminism, sometimes put in the plural feminisms, is a loose confederation of social, political, spiritual, and intellectual movements that places women and gender at the center of inquiry with the goal of social justice. What has literary studies taught us about feminism? That being gendered is a text that can be read, interpreted, manipulated, and altered...
